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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The Argosy Library from Altus Press

The First Series of Releases Features Popular Authors Such as
Lester Dent, Otis Adelbert Kline, W.C. Tuttle, and George F. Worts

March 18, 2015: Altus Press today announced the premiere of its
new line of books: The Argosy Library series.

Founded at the end of the Nineteenth Century by publishing tycoon
Frank A. Munsey, Argosy Magazine
quickly became one of the most popular—and prestigious—fiction magazines
of its day and spawned a publishing revolution.

Known as one of the most literate pulp magazines, Argosy
published thousands of short stories and novels, many of which features some of
the most influential series characters in popular fiction.

With the inauguration of The Argosy Library, Altus Press plans to
bring back into print the best of the Frank A. Munsey Company, sourced from its
suite of sibling titles such as Argosy, The All-Story, and Flynn’s Detective Fiction Weekly, among
others.

The Argosy Library expects to showcase the varied mix of genres
that made Argosy one of the most popular pulps of all time, and Series 1
does just that by showcasing adventure, mystery, western, science fiction,
fantasy, and crime stories by some of Munsey’s
most popular authors such as Lester Dent, W. Wirt, Otis Adelbert Kline, W.C.
Tuttle, George F. Worts, and Theodore Roscoe, among others.

The Argosy Library will be released in series of ten books at a
time—in matching trade dress—and will be
available in softcover, hardcover, and ebook editions. In addition to being available
separately, each series of releases can be purchased as a single,
heavily-discounted set.

Series 1 of The Argosy Library is expected to be released in May.

For more information, please visit Altus Press.com.

Titles in Series 1 of The
Argosy Library:

Genius Jones

by Lester Dent, introduction by Will Murray

The gold-dusted saga of a red-bearded young giant, raised in the
Arctic on seal-meat and encyclopedias, who descends on civilization with a loud
and solid crash. In his search for wisdom and adventure, the man Jones doesn’t have Aladdin’s lamp—but
he doesn’t really need it….
Never before reprinted, it’s the longest
novel Lester Dent ever published, and one of the most famous. This edition
restores text cut from its original publication. Part of The Argosy Library of
classics.

271 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

When Tigers Are Hunting: The Complete Adventures of Cordie,
Soldier of Fortune, Volume 1

by W. Wirt

The sagas of Jimmie Cordie and his crew were among Argosy’s most popular series when it was
brought to that magazine during its early ’30s
renaissance. Quite clearly an inspiration for the creation of Doc Savage, this
edition collects his first nine adventures. Part of The Argosy Library of
classics.

240 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

The Swordsman of Mars

by Otis Adelbert Kline

Harry Thorne, explorer and swordsman, had scarcely more than
heard of the Red Planet, Mars—when an amazing thing happened….
Otis Adelbert Kline is well-known as one of the best fantasy/adventure
contemporaries of Edgar Rice Burroughs. This edition is sourced from the
original magazine text and includes all of the original illustrations. Part of
The Argosy Library of classics.

237 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

The Sherlock of Sageland: The Complete Tales of Sheriff Henry,
Volume 1

by W.C. Tuttle, introduction by Sai Shankar

Once voted Adventure Magazine’s most popular author, W.C. Tuttle introduced
the world to one of his longest-running, and most popular series characters,
Henry Harrison Conroy, in the pages of Argosy. Collected here are the
first four stories. Part of The Argosy Library of classics.

269 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Gone North

by Charles Alden
Seltzer

When Jim Fallon started for the Hudson Bay country, he wasn’t sure whether he was on a man-hunt or
a wild goose chase—but he found his quest was fraught
with real enough peril. Among the best novels ever written by one of Argosy’s most popular authors. Part of The
Argosy Library of classics.

220 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

The Masked Master Mind

by George F. Worts

One of Argosy’s
most popular authors pens this never-before reprinted novel of a trail of crime
that ran from sleepy Maple Hollow to Steel City. Part of The Argosy Library of
classics.

265 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Balata

by Fred MacIsaac

Trees of living gold in the Amazon jungles, guarded by
alligators, poisoned darts and rival hunters—such was the
lodestone that drew an American expedition, and the unwilling Pete Holcomb….
Part of The Argosy Library of classics.

216 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Bretwalda

by Philip Ketchum

’Twas the
mightiest weapon the eyes of man had ever beheld; its mystic name meant “Ruler
of Briton.”And from over the Northern Sea came a
Viking’s thrall—the only man in the
world who could wield that fearsome steel—to save good King
Alfred and the homeland he scarce remembered. Collecting—for the first time—all
12 stories of the Bretwalda saga. Part of The Argosy Library of classics.

479 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover

Draft of Eternity

by Victor Rousseau

A groundbreaking science fiction, post-apocalyptic & time
travel classic from the early days of The All-Story by an underrated
writer. Part of The Argosy Library of classics.

183 pages / $17.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Four Corners,
Volume 1

by Theodore Roscoe

Mystery runs rampant in the quiet, upstate New York town of Four
Corners…. Easily one of Roscoe’s
best-written series, Volume 1 collects the first half of this lost masterpiece
of the pulps. Part of The Argosy Library of classics.

201 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

(Needless to say, I'm really looking forward to these. It's a great time to be a pulp fan!)

4 comments:

I read that Dent novel many years ago in ARGOSY but am looking forward to reading it again. I'm really excited about the Bretwalda collection by Ketchum and those Jimmie Cordie stories by Wirt. I've been wanting to read those for a long time.

I suspect Matt will do the print editions first with the e-books to come later. Most of the Altus Press e-books are $4.99 (the Doc Savages are more expensive but still very affordable). I don't know how this new series will be priced, but I'll probably wait for the e-books on some of them because they're easier for me to read these days. I won't be able to pass up some of the print editions, though.